Doctors for Drug Policy Reform is pleased to announce the addition of Tanja Bagar, PhD to its board of directors.
Tanja Bagar, PhD, is the co-founder, CEO and Chairman of the Expert Council of the ICANNA International Institute for Cannabinoids, a collaborative effort of Slovenia, Germany, and Austria. She lectures in microbiology, biochemistry and topics on ecology at the Faculty Alma Mater Europaea and is a lecturer for medical staff and patients at several international education programs on cannabinoids.
Dr. Bagar is the author of The Hemp Medicine: How Hemp Helps with Pain, Rheumatism, Cancer and Stress, published in German and Slovene and soon to be published in English and Croatian. She is also the co-founder of an online consulting clinic for the medical use of cannabinoids and a member of the first group in Slovenia to use cannabinoids in an outpatient consultative setting.
Dr. Bagar obtained her research training in the laboratory at the National Institute of Chemistry, the Faculty of Biotechnology, the National Laboratory for Health, Environment and Food, in the Topolšica Hospital, and abroad at the Institute of Microbiology and Genetics at the Georg-August University of Gottingen in Germany and at the Institute for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh.